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Organized by the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) in conjunction with the United Front—a coalition of seven campus anti-apartheid groups—the march was the culmination of months of student unrest over Harvard’s holdings in firms doing business in the country...
Chanting “1-2-3-4, throw apartheid out the door; 2-4-6-8, don’t support the racist state,” thousands of demonstrators carried candles and kerosene-soaked torches as they marched from Harvard Yard to the Quad and along the Charles River...
DIED. WALTER SISULU, 90, steadfast, low-profile crusader against apartheid who, with close friend Nelson Mandela, led the African National Congress (A.N.C.), co-founded its Youth League and engineered the struggle for South African democracy; in Soweto, South Africa. Sisulu, who recruited Mandela into the A.N.C. and later served as his trusted adviser during Mandela's presidency, spent a quarter-century with Mandela in the Robben Island prison. The son of a construction worker and a maid, he inspired reverence among inmates with his teachings and strength. "It was not possible to despair," he said after his release. "The spirit...
...apply the money to a free Iraq to make sure there are no more victims." But with a draft POW Protection Act already circulating on Capitol Hill, he adds, "The President is committed to working with Congress to seek alternative means of redress." - By Margot Roosevelt Paying for Apartheid SOUTH AFRICA Forty years of oppression aren't easily washed away. But last week South Africa may have missed a chance to come a bit cleaner on the legacy of apartheid. The final phase of the government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up seven years ago to report...
AMANDLA! A new documentary on the role that song played in the battle against apartheid in South Africa, Amandla begins with the sight of children singing as they watch the exhumation and reburial of their executed father’s corpse. Closing with the sight of newly-elected president Nelson Mandela gleefully dancing amid throngs of followers, the film contrasts the violence of South Africa’s apartheid era with the humanity and emotion of both its Afrikaaner and black South African subjects. The movie tells the story of black South African freedom music...